Banner Fraktur

Its x-height is 73.5% of the cap height, near the 74.5% typical of decorative fonts in the library, lower than 19 of the 35 other decorative fonts. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l line up with the capitals (99.3% of their height), and descenders on g, j, p, q and y drop 21.8% of the cap height below the baseline, shallower than 23 of the 35 other decorative fonts. It sets narrow: an average lowercase letter, spacing included, is 70.6% as wide as the capitals are tall (an average capital, 109.7%), 7.3% less than the median for decorative fonts, so more words fit on a line. The o is close to a circle, 1.08 times as wide as it is tall, and M is the widest capital, at 1.29 times the width of H. The O stops 0.7% of the cap height short of H and sits on the baseline.

The letters stand upright, with no measurable slant. Ink covers 37.8% of each lowercase letter's box (its advance width by the cap height), darker than 20 of the 35 other decorative fonts.

Its 148 characters include 105 Latin letters, plus 43 figures, punctuation marks and symbols; 53 of the Latin letters are accented or special forms beyond A to Z. The word space measures 34% of the cap height, and the blank space either side of a lowercase letter takes up 6.7% of its width. Spacing is adjusted with 166 kerning pairs, fewer than 19 of the 35 other decorative fonts. The tightest of them is fa, which closes up by 11.7% of the cap height. The figures have different widths, so columns of numbers set in Banner Fraktur will not line up exactly.

Banner Fraktur is drawn on the same letter structure as one other font in the library. Compared with Banner Fraktur, Crest Fraktur sets 9% wider.